Are you willing to look at these guardrails and maybe make some reforms? There's no money sitting on the sidelines. I just don't know what that means. You can say I'm paying down 2% of the unfunded pension liability this year. This is a state that put a dime into pensions for the previous 40, 50 years and left us with this gaping hole that was really sapping the energy and optimism from the state. (23:07–23:12)
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Asserts that Connecticut is reducing its unfunded pension liability by 2% this year.
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